Novel Assessments & Reviews: Empowering Writers & Helping Readers

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StenDuring

ZhiRuYi

Lord_of_Potatoes

If you could kindly assess my novel Godking Ascending the Heavens, that would be a great boon!
It is my first novel and the opening chapters are a bit rough, but I would like to know how the book stands as it is.

It would be awesome if you could also let me know how many chapters the assessment was based on.
This will help me figure out how much the opening chapters might be dragging the story down (if so) and if my latest chapters have shown improvement.

A note on technical quality: I have often cut out prose and long descriptions when I felt it was cramping the pace of my novel. Even after editing I was told by readers that the pace of my story is slow. Despite this, I am now trying to reincorporate longer descriptions etc. as I felt my attempt to hasten the speed was cramping my writing style. Funny that. I'd like to hear what your opinion is on the "prose vs. pace" debate!

Thanks ahead of time, Book_Keeper!

Book_Keeper

Dr_Zombie
How long will the Body Swap story be? It's the only one up on the website so far. I consider short stories to be around 10 chapters or less where one chapter is around 800 or more words. This is just a rough estimate.

Lord_of_Potatoes Awesome name.
Yes the "ban" has lifted lol! So if ImBloo is still interested, you're free to ask for an assessment.
As for the chapter length covered by assessments, it's all the chapters available---the same for a review. The only difference between the two is that I look at the story more closely for specifics in a review.

Jamison_C For you good sir, I will assess on a larger, specified scale. Since I already reviewed your story, CF/PD only won't be too hard.
And if you have 10 more chapters since last time, I can always re-assess. Additionally, since you were one of the beginning stories, I can better reevaluate how it matches up with a now more numerous collection of stories.

Lord_of_Potatoes
As for prose versus pace, certainly any good novel should have both. In terms of how VB's assesses, it has a slight deference for prose over pace. Webnovels, in general, focus more on pace over prose. However the defining point between a webnovel and a print book sold in a bookstore is the writing composition and style. Plenty of "classics" and bestsellers have very slow or little plot action, but for the thought and style of writing, they've gained acclaim.
In this way, rather than following the 'formula' of webnovels, distinctive of writing is weighed a little more heavily. This distinguishes, say, the cookie-cutter "cultivation" novels from the ingenious written 'cultivation' novels.
Making a system to assess webnovels is rather pointless since the caliber is lower and therefore more limited. Hopefully, by assessing them more seriously, even the best webnovels have room to grow beyond the online domain.
Taking all this with a grain of salt, every story is different, so one pace isn't correct for all. Just stay true to your style. You can always keep the longer copy and have a shorter one for mobile reading. Everybody's preferences are different.

WorstNameEver

Book_Keeper Thanks a heap Book_Keeper.
Always get annoyed how fan-fictions and generic/unoriginal stories always get high rankings for whatever reason (poor taste of people just starting web novels usually ).

SouthToiletWizard

JuneChristina every body always wants something. There's never anything truly altruistic. Im lonely and bored they hang because they know they will get fed.

JuneChristina

SouthToiletWizard Awwww....That's true. I usually distance myself from people who makes me feel that way. If feel like sht with them I might as well feel like sht by myself. I rather be a wallflower instead of a light bulb. But that just me. Plus I'm always broke, so there's noway I can do your approach anyway.

StenDuring

Knartharsharh Review done. Tried to make it clear what's there and not there since it's so extremely early in the story.

Jamison_C

Book, is it possible for return users (aka me) to request a pure assessment based on CF and PD? Also, can the scale for each category-for CF/PD only- be expanded to 1-5? I realize that this will probably function purely as a writers aid of sorts. Let me know your thoughts.

NOTICE: After assessing over two hundred stories, my scoring expectations/requirements are more solidified. Thus, upon reviewing Kyazi's Runeless, the assessment score increased from the initial 10 to now 12. Note, however, that assessments are stronger with more chapters. PD and CF rely heavily on this, so these scores are still estimates on their potential.

So there's a possibility that when I reassess novels that were under the 100 novel mark, the scores might increase (or decrease). I've also been debating whether to use half/partial scores, but that'll mess up my tagging system, argh. Not to mention, I'm effectively increasing scoring to more than 4 stages per factor... I'll just stick to this basic system as it helps minimize over-analyzing (which can lead to inadvertent biased determinations).

stupid_villain

StenDuring

Hmm, reasessing. Interesting but will have to wait until somewhere in volume two. Slice of life stories progress at a glacial speed with 'red herring' -kind of plot-lines liberally diverging from the main plot

I'll take you up on that one somewhere at around chapter 100.

Talenta

Hey I hope I ain't too late but can your please asses and review my novel it's the first one that am writing and it's only four chapters for now but I will be posting a chapter everyday. Thanks https://m.webnovel.com/book/11785777205527905